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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:36:02
Message-Id: 200702221724.16471.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless by Grant Edwards
1 On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote:
2
3 > More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require
4 > a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of
5 > a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link,
6 > even if the bandwidth is the same:
7
8 Where do you get that number from?
9
10 I can not imagine any reason why wifi should have alatency one or two levels
11 of magnitude higher than wires.
12
13 Uwe
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16 A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE:
17 http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2
18 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE:
19 http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2
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[gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>